The water is always black - The poesy of descrying, Röstånga Konsthall

Water is not neutral. It carries memories, depth, movement — and darkness. In “The water is always black” an inner river system opens up, where landscapes are no longer geographies without state: the sediment of dreams, the archive of the body, the black mirror of the surface. The exhibition moves through poetic streams and underground springs, like Hvergelmir — the mythical source of black ice water — as a symbol of that which is born from the hidden, even that which threatens the very existence of the world. Here the water is always black.

Hyndlas song - A cardiophagic performance ritual with acoustic noise in which Hyndla tells the story from Eddan of how Loki eats a hugsten(heart), becomes pregnant and gives birth to all the strange creatures of the world. Thunder Perfect, Liebig 12, Berlin, October 2025.

Unravelling the threads, commissioned by Helmholtz Institute for Marine Biodiversity.

Unravelling The Threads combines rhizomatic sculptural fragments of the complex and dynamic networks of marine food webs, constituted by predator-prey interspecies relationships, with sonifications of Lotka-Volterra equations, simulations of population dynamics described by Generalized Modeling of ecological networks, and identified network motifs such as Omnivory, TreeChain, and Apparent Competition.  The project was a collaboration between Hugsten and Melanie Habermann at HIfMB, organized by Geraint Rhys.

Gastkram (ghost hug) on TAILNIA

Globulology on FALT.  

Videos Hyperpresence and Dyptique Alusien on Hugsten bandcamp.